Setup Monitoring and Observability

Setup monitoring and observability tools

Instructions

1. Observability Strategy Planning

   • Analyze application architecture and monitoring requirements
   • Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)
   • Plan monitoring stack architecture and data flow
   • Assess compliance and retention requirements
   • Define alerting strategies and escalation procedures

2. Metrics Collection and Monitoring

   • Set up application metrics collection (Prometheus, DataDog, New Relic)
   • Configure infrastructure monitoring for servers, containers, and cloud resources
   • Set up business metrics and user experience monitoring
   • Configure custom metrics for application-specific monitoring
   • Set up metrics aggregation and time-series storage

3. Logging Infrastructure

   • Set up centralized logging system (ELK Stack, Fluentd, Splunk)
   • Configure structured logging with consistent formats
   • Set up log aggregation and forwarding from all services
   • Configure log retention policies and archival strategies
   • Set up log parsing, enrichment, and indexing

4. Distributed Tracing

   • Set up distributed tracing system (Jaeger, Zipkin, AWS X-Ray)
   • Configure trace instrumentation in application code
   • Set up trace sampling and collection strategies
   • Configure trace correlation across service boundaries
   • Set up trace analysis and performance optimization

5. Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

   • Configure APM tools for application performance insights
   • Set up error tracking and exception monitoring
   • Configure database query monitoring and optimization
   • Set up real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring
   • Configure performance profiling and bottleneck identification

6. Infrastructure and System Monitoring

   • Set up server and container monitoring (CPU, memory, disk, network)
   • Configure cloud service monitoring and cost tracking
   • Set up database monitoring and performance analysis
   • Configure network monitoring and security scanning
   • Set up capacity planning and resource optimization

7. Alerting and Notification System

   • Configure intelligent alerting with proper thresholds
   • Set up alert routing and escalation procedures
   • Configure notification channels (email, Slack, PagerDuty)
   • Set up alert correlation and noise reduction
   • Configure on-call scheduling and incident management

8. Dashboards and Visualization

   • Create comprehensive monitoring dashboards (Grafana, Kibana)
   • Set up real-time system health dashboards
   • Configure business metrics and KPI visualization
   • Create role-specific dashboards for different teams
   • Set up mobile-friendly monitoring interfaces

9. Security Monitoring and Compliance

   • Set up security event monitoring and SIEM integration
   • Configure compliance monitoring and audit trails
   • Set up vulnerability scanning and security alerting
   • Configure access monitoring and user behavior analytics
   • Set up data privacy and protection monitoring

10. Incident Response and Automation

    • Set up automated incident detection and response
    • Configure runbook automation and self-healing systems
    • Set up incident management and communication workflows
    • Configure post-incident analysis and improvement processes
    • Create monitoring maintenance and optimization procedures
    • Train team on monitoring tools and incident response procedures